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Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>

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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-02T10:15:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> Is _The Third Manifesto_ available online ?

No. It's a book, and not a terribly small one, either.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201709287/

> Could you brief me why do they discourage a syntactical frontent to a
> feature that is trivially implemented ?

What's the point of adding it? It's just one more thing to learn.

cjs
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